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haggard

  • EN [ ˈhægəd]
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English definition

    Adjective

  • 1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;

    • "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"
    • "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"
    • "that raddled but still noble face"
    • "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens
  • 2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

    • "emaciated bony hands"
    • "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
    • "eyes were haggard and cavernous"
    • "small pinched faces"
    • "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

Example sentences

  • She stopped, and he stopped with her, and she stared into his haggard, burning face.

  • In a few years I should be pinched, thin , and haggard, beset with troubles and miseries.

  • His face was pale and haggard and great drops of sweat stood on his forehead.

  • The poor fellow's face looked haggard with want.

  • Repeatedly around in dust, and repeated exposure to the whirlpool of life, so lonely, so haggard.

  • The haggard faces of the rescued miners showed that they had a great deal of sufferings.

  • Haggard from and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

  • The poor fellow's face was haggard, and his eyes showed the fear that was upon him.

  • Her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness.

  • Morris looked very handsome, but terribly haggard.

  • It was a sort of haggard astonishment.

  • Stephen came out of the hot mill wind and cold wet streets, haggard and worn.

  • There was a drawn and haggard look about his eyes.

  • He looked haggard after a serious disease.

  • The haggard faces of the rescued miners showed what they had suffered.

  • The old lady has a haggard face.

  • 'she looks a little haggard, but not too thin. Maybe a little thinner than before.

  • This after the church board determined to the Reverend Haggard committed sexually immoral conduct.

  • Premature wrinkles result when the jogger loses so much weight that they look haggard.

  • Don't lose so much weight that you look haggard.

  • You looked so haggard. You must be wasted.

  • Because of the serious lack of sleep, her husband started wasting haggard, work spirit trance.

  • Evangelical leader Ted Haggard has stepped of National Association of Evangelicals and his church in Colorado.

  • As she got older she got haggard.

  • Haggard from and hunger, they the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

  • Haggard and pale, shabbily or raggedly dressed, their and down at heel, they slouched past.

  • Nick glanced around at the haggard faces watching him.

  • She was looking very haggard and worn.

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